Requests the entity referred to in paragraph 1 above to undertake the necessary arrangements for the implementation of the above-mentioned guidance, and to include in its report to the Conference of the Parties at its ninth session the specific steps it has undertaken to implement this guidance; Encourages Annex II Parties, and Parties included in Annex I that are in a position to do so, to address the needs of least developed countries with regard to training in negotiating skills and language through bilateral and other sources of funding; Invites all Parties, and the Least Developed Countries Expert Group, and the Global Environment Facility and its implementing and executing agencies, to submit to the secretariat, by 15 April 2003, views on strategies for implementing national adaptation programmes of action and ways and means to address the various elements of the least developed countries work programme, in order to meet the urgent and immediate adaptation needs of least developed countries, for consideration by Parties at the eighteenth session of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation; Requests the secretariat to prepare a compilation of views received pursuant to paragraph 6 above; Decides to consider providing further guidance to an entity entrusted with the operation of the financial mechanism of the Convention for the operation of the Least Developed Countries Fund, at its ninth session.
Invita a todas las Partes y al Grupo de Expertos para los países menos adelantados, así como al Fondo para el Medio Ambiente Mundial y sus organismos de aplicación y ejecución, a que presenten a la secretaría, a más tardar el 15 de abril de 2003, sus opiniones sobre las estrategias para ejecutar los programas nacionales de adaptación y la manera de abordar los diversos elementos del programa de trabajo para los países menos adelantados, a fin de satisfacer las necesidades de adaptación urgentes e inmediatas de esos países, para que las Partes las examinen en el 18º período de sesiones del Órgano Subsidiario de Ejecución;